Satellite choice
FAMILY FILM The Borrowers, 12.50pm, Film4
MARY NORTON’S children’s stories of little people living in secret in the homes of full-sized folk got this jolly and warm-hearted adaptation. Jim Broadbent is head of the tiny Clock family, who borrow what they need, while Bradley Pierce plays the young lad realising that things are going missing.
FOOTBALL Slavia Prague v Chelsea, 7.30pm, BT Sport 3
OLIVIER GIROUD has a sensational tally of nine goals in the Europa League this season, and will hope to add to that as Chelsea travel to Prague. At 7.15pm on BT Sport 2, Giroud’s old club, Arsenal, play host to Napoli.
U.S. COMEDY Speechless, 7.30pm, E4
THIS sharp but essentially sweet sitcom starring Minnie Driver has been showing every weeknight on E4, and we’re already at the start of season two. The life of mum Maya (Driver) is normally focused on her son J.J., who has cerebral palsy — so when he goes away to camp, where will her excess energy go?
GOLF The Masters, 8pm, Sky Golf & Main Event
RORY McILROY continues his bid for the elusive green jacket at Augusta and a career grand slam. Highlights on BBC2 tomorrow at 7pm.
LEGAL DRAMA The Good Fight, 9pm, More4
MICHAEL SHEEN’S performance as an unorthodox lawyer continues to impress, raging like an animal at anyone and everything that crosses his path. Also tonight, Diane meets the (slightly ridiculous) Trump resistance, and a divorce case turns very personal.
WAR STORY Band Of Brothers, 9pm, Pick
STEVEN SPIELBERG and Tom Hanks’s superb World War II drama begins a weekly repeat on Freeview. Watch out for Michael Fassbender and Damian Lewis in this first episode, in which Easy Company train in the U.S. and then the UK, under the brittle Lt Sobel (David Schwimmer).
SPACE ADVENTURE The Orville, 9pm, Fox
SETH MacFARLANE’S sci-fi series started out looking like a comic homage to Nineties Star Trek, but it has become a show with a dramatic bite of its own. As we return to new episodes from season two, the peace negotiations take a dark turn, especially for Gordon (Scott Grimes, pictured), while Ted Danson’s Admiral Perry returns.
NEW YORK WOMEN The Bold Type, Amazon Prime
THE return of this frothy, glossy U.S. drama about the lives of three friends who work for a women’s magazine in New York City. A new episode arrives every Wednesday.
HOSPITAL SITCOM Porters,, 10pm,p, Dave
SIMON hits on a way to make money in tonight’s new episode, but it’s not without complications — and they’re darker than you might imagine. Sally Lindsay (pictured with Sanjeev Kohli) guest stars as his mum in an episode that has more emotional grounding than earlier instalments and is, as a result, much funnier.
FREEVIEW MOVIE Flightplan, 10.45pm, ITV4
JODIE FOSTER stars in this taut thriller as the mother whose sixyear-old daughter goes missing in mid-air. The crew deny the girl ever boarded the plane and accuse her of being delusional. Foster keeps the hysterics in check to get to the bottom of a sinister conspiracy.
FILM FRIGHTS The Silence, Netflix
STANLEY TUCCI and Kiernan Shipka (Mad Men) lead the strong cast of this Quiet Place-style horror, in which the pursuing creatures hunt by sound.